Honestly the more of these shutdowns I see over the years, the more I come to the conclusion that if you're relying on Google for anything that isn't Search, GM

Honestly the more of these shutdowns I see over the years, the more I come to the conclusion that if you're relying on Google for anything that isn't Search, GMail or YouTube, you might as well consider that to be volatile data and you should look into alternatives (and then watch out that Google doesn't suddenly choose to acquire them). I can selfhost (and know enough about my tech stacks to unshittify a broken installation) but that's obviously not a solution for everyone and there's an increased standards capture going on with Big Tech to make that harder and harder these days. GMail and YouTube are solely exempt because of some faint hope of government intervention if Google's internal brain bleed ever decides to kill those off. Which isn't a great thing to bet on. (Search is exempt because it's literally the main reason they're so massive.)